Posted on 02/12/2008 3:34:21 PM PST by Oliver Optic
Early exit poll data for tonight...
In Maryland, McCain 57 percent, Huckabee 31 percent.
In Virginia, the second wave of data shows an extremely close race, less than a percentage point between McCain and Huckabee.
But I warn you, at this point, or even a little later a week ago, the data was saying McCain and Romney were tied in Arizona, and McCain won comfortably.
No word on the Democrats yet, and no word on D.C....
GO Huck
I wonder who the three republicans in DC voted for.
I’m not surprised about Huckabee’s apparent strength in Virginia. A lot of God-fearing folks in the rural part of the state love Baptist ministers, particularly those running for high office.
Citywide, there's gotta be at least two dozen.
I don’t care if Huck was a cross dressing skid row eskimo, we need to force this thing to a brokered convention.
No, no. You've already mentioned McCain just now, remember...? ;)
The big news here is Virginia. A few days ago McCain was leading by 56% to 25% ... now it looks like it will be nip and tuck tonight.
From a political perspective, the anti-McCain vote needs to be going to Huckabee these days ... as I can demonstrate:
If the results tonight are, say, Huckabee 47%, McCain 46% ... it shakes the GOP establishment and spawns a new round of stories about GOP conservatives not embracing McCain.
But if two per cent of Huckabee’s votes go to Fred instead ... and the results are McCain 46%, Huckabee 45%, and Fred 2% ... it is a win for McCain, and the media narrative is how he has cemented his status as the presumptive nominee. The 2% to Fred (or whomever) are assumed to be early voters or voters who didn’t know that their guy had dropped out.
If someone’s conscience won’t let them vote for Huckabee, for whatever reason, then obviously they shouldn’t. But from a purely political perspective he is the anti-McCain right now.
Heh ... true that.
Geraghty is also reporting the possibility they may extend the voting hours in Virginia due to the icy weather.
Agreed.
It doesn’t matter what Huckabee’s record is with a lot of those folks. They don’t look at that. The fact that he was once a Baptist minister will trump everything else in their minds. Believe, I know...
Scratch that ... apparently the polls closed on time. CNN has called Virginia for Obama on the Dem side, and says it is an unexpectedly tight race on the GOP side.
As I said, if Huckabee wins it spawns a whole new set of discussions about McCain's weakness among conservatives.
Hopefully the self righteous hypocrites voting for Huckabee will believes Gods word and vote for McCain, but most wont in their self righteousness, they will sit home and pout that God chose someone else than their guy.
I guess you dont know any Christains.
Dude, you have me scratching my head. You said a mouthful of stuff but no substance..
Whut? You’re not making any sense. McCain is “God’s candidate”? You gotta be kiddin’ me...!
“If someone’s conscience won’t let them vote for Huckabee, for whatever reason, then obviously they shouldn’t. But from a purely political perspective he is the anti-McCain right now.”
Real conservatives should find them both problematic.
Huck is the worse-than-McCain is the problem.
The ‘fix’ for this ‘problem’, putting Huckster on the ticket with McCain is worse than the disease. A double-RINO ticket is no cure for McCain’s RINO deviations from the conservative path.
I am one.
McCain will win this contest and when he does, I hope the Huckabee followers will back McCain as "Gods candidate".
God sets up kings. Thats scriptural. If all kings and leaders are set up by God, you don’t have to be a Baptist preacher to be Gods candidate.
You have to be from Seattle. I know many people from Seattle. I went to high school at Edmonds High. For you to post what you did screams “I am from Seattle!”
I’m getting an absentee ballot in the general election if MARC keeps acting up. Thanks for making me feel like a second-class citizen in my new home, Anne Arundel County.
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Hmmm..don't see any mention of either kings or God in the process described above. Are you sure you're in the right country and election?
Don't take it personally; just take it seriously.
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